ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN SEPTEMBER
Saints celebrated on the 22nd of September
Prayer to the Angels and the Saints
Heavenly Father, in praising Your Angels and Saints we praise Your glory, for by honouring them we honour You, their Creator. Their splendour shows us Your greatness, which infinitely surpasses that of all creation.
In Your loving providence, You saw fit to send Your Angels to watch over us. Grant that we may always be under their protection and one day enjoy their company in heaven.
Heavenly Father, You are glorified in Your Saints, for their glory is the crowning of Your gifts. You provide an example for us by their lives on earth, You give us their friendship by our communion with them, You grant us strength and protection through their prayer for the Church, and You spur us on to victory over evil and the prize of eternal glory by this great company of witnesses.
Grant that we who aspire to take part in their joy may be filled with the Spirit that blessed their lives, so that, after sharing their faith on earth, we may also experience their peace in heaven. Amen.
ST SANCTINUS, BISHOP
St Sanctinus, Bishop (September 22) (Date unknown). St Sanctinus is alleged to have been the first Bishop of Meaux and a disciple of St Denis of Paris.
This would place him in the third or fourth century of the Christian era, accepting the modern theory of the dates of St Denis and other Apostles of Gaul.
St Sanctinus, or another Saint of the same name, is claimed also by Verdun.
(From The Book of Saints, 1921, by the Monks of Ramsgate - 📷 "Ville de Meaux, 1650")
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